There’s nothing convenient about insulin injections, and if you’ve ever wondered why you can’t just pop a pill to contro…
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Should Metformin Be Used to Treat Prediabetes?
About one third of all American adults have prediabetes, an astonishing 88 million Americans, according to the criteria …
Metformin Recalls: What You Need to Know
Over the past 6 weeks multiple companies have issued recalls for extended-release metformin, the oral diabetes medicine …
Can Diabetes Drug Trials be Trusted?
Researchers Raise Doubt Over Major Diabetes Drug Trials
The FDA requires pharmaceutical companies developing diabetes dr…
A Low Carb Diet and SGLT2 Inhibitors Can be Dangerous Together
SGLT2 inhibitors are a class of drugs that are approved to lower the blood glucose levels of people with Type 2 diabetes…
FDA Approves First GLP-1 Pill, Novo Nordisk’s Rybelsus
TheU.S. FDA has approved Rybelsus (semaglutide), the first and only glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analog in a pill.
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FDA Rejects Sanofi-Lexicon Oral Medication for Type 1 Diabetes
The FDA has denied approval of Sanofi and Lexicon’s drug, sotagliflozin, as an add-on to insulin therapy in the tr…
10 Things to Look for in Diabetes Tech and Drugs in 2019
The coming year promises to be a busy one for innovations in diabetes tech and medicine. Here are ten things currently i…
Metformin Can Protect the Hearts of People with Diabetes
Metformin protects the hearts of people with Type 1 diabetes, according to the results of the MERIT clinical trial. Metf…
Studies Show Diabetes Drug Invokana Increases Amputation Risk
People with diabetes who take a class of drugs known as sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors will now need …
